Skinny Collection (page 2)

Old Mr Winter with a baby on a Christmas card
Old Mr Winter with a baby on a Christmas and New Year card, surrounded by robins and bells -- his comfort and joy. (3 of 3) Date: circa 1880s

Old Mr Winter in the snow on a Christmas card
Old Mr Winter with his shopping in the snow on a Christmas card. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1880s

Comic postcard, Man visiting the doctor Date: 20th century

Comic German postcard -- Two Better Halves
Comic German postcard by Arthur Thiele -- Two Better Halves -- two grossly overweight women followed by their two skinny husbands. Date: early 20th century

Girl with Great Dane dog and doll in pram
A young girl waits for her mother, looking after a skinny Great Dane dog and a doll in a pram. Date: circa 1981

Cartoon on postcard, Kitchener news, WW1
Cartoon on a postcard, showing a skinny woman in the early stages of the First World War, reading a news bulletin: Kitchener gets half a million men in a month

Anti-aircraft gun, Skinny Liz, Western Front, WW1
An anti-aircraft gun with the name Skinny Liz painted on it, on the Western Front during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Misfitz Dolls - Ping-Pong. early 20th century

Misfitz - Rip Van Winkle. early 20th century

Skinny dog and a toy doll, watched by a young girl in Eccles
A young girl waits for her mother, looking after a skinny Great Dane dog and a doll in a pram. Date: circa 1981

Caricature of Sarah Bernhardt, French actress
Caricature of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), legendary French actress, described here as: Actor, author, painter, sculptor, universal genius, creation-whipper and wholesale fascinator

Caricature of John Hollingshead, theatre manager
Caricature of John Hollingshead (1827-1904), at this time manager of the Gaiety Theatre, seen here reviving an actor (probably Edward Terry) and an actress (Sarah Bernhardt) in the form of puppets

Caricature of Dion Boucicault and three other actors
Caricature of Dion Boucicault (?1820-1890), Irish actor and playwright -- Address to the Players. Indicating a poster behind him

George Ernest Studdy, self-portrait with Bonzo puppy
George Ernest Studdy, a self-portrait of the artist bending right down to observe a Bonzo-like puppy. Captioned Studdy employs no models

Alice, Where Art Thou, Christmas card
Alice, Where Art Thou, comic interpretation of a popular song on a Christmas card, with two frogs in the moonlight. (1 of 3) Date: circa 1890s

Jack Frost on a Christmas and New Year card, wearing skates and turning the water to ice. Date: circa 1890s

Victorian Scrap, thin man dancing. circa 1880s

Coach at Dugeon Ghyll New Hotel in the Lake District, still going today. The photograph shows the attire of a coachman and his rather skinny horses Date: 1906

Village elder, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: circa 1890s

The Seven Good Deeds of Bonzo (Saturday) -- he gives the fattened Christmas turkey a little exercise. Date: 1923

Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beauties
Sweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925

Boy Bathing C1900

Mans top hat blown off on a windy day in March
A mans top hat is blown off over a cliff on a windy day by the sea in March. He waves his rolled umbrella in annoyance, but his dog seems unconcerned

Whitewashed Georgian house in Mid or South Wales
A whitewashed Georgian house in Mid or South Wales, with a plump man and a skinny boy standing in front of the entrance

Skinnydipping at Wapping
A group of boys skinny dipping on an industrial stretch of the River Thames at Wapping, east London

Planing Off a Bit More
Comment on womens desire to achieve the fashionable silhouette of no curves. A thin, flat-chested woman with an Eton crop wears court shoes & a sailor style dress

Cartoon commentary on Germanys lack of money
A cartoon commentary on Germanys lack of money after the First World War. The German man in the foreground is in rags, and has no trousers, but none of the other European powers is able to help

Margery meets Old Mother Hubbard
Margery meets another of her nursery rhyme heroines, Old Mother Hubbard

Woman Dressing 1831
A skinny husband helps his plump wife with her corset: " He is fond of a slender waist!"

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